Cannot burn Kubuntu ISO to DVD

[Geoff Fitton]

Downloaded Kubuntu 21.04 ISO & checked SHA256, perfect match. Tried burning with K3B to a 4GB DVD. Stopped at 98% with a message "Fatal error during recording: Invalid argument." & ejected the DVD. I tried it on another machine, SAME problem. I then ran a simulated burn on both machines, to check it wasn't a HW problem, the same problem again. I'd already burned Kubuntu 20.04.3 to a DVD a couple of days before without any trouble at all! So I downloaded Kubuntu 21.10 (Beta), with the same results, the burn failed at 98%.

System Debian KDE 10.10
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K3b Version: 18.8.1
KDE Version: 5.49.0
Qt Version: 5.11.3
Kernel: 5.10.0-0.bpo.8-amd64

Used versions
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growisofs: 7.1

growisofs
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Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/sr0 obs=32k seek=0'
/dev/sr0: engaging DVD-R DAO upon user request...
/dev/sr0: reserving 1436098 blocks
/dev/sr0: "Current Write Speed" is 16.4x1352KBps.
      98304/2941128704 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 2493:08 RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
      98304/2941128704 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 4487:39 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0%
      98304/2941128704 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 5983:32 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0%
      98304/2941128704 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 7479:25 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0%
      98304/2941128704 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 9473:56 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0%
      98304/2941128704 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 10969:49 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0%
   26574848/2941128704 ( 0.9%) @5.7x, remaining 45:41 RBU 100.0% UBU 98.6%
   56164352/2941128704 ( 1.9%) @6.4x, remaining 24:49 RBU 100.0% UBU 97.6%
[== ==]
2474016768/2941128704 (84.1%) @12.7x, remaining 0:39 RBU 99.9% UBU 97.1%
 2532999168/2941128704 (86.1%) @12.8x, remaining 0:34 RBU 100.0% UBU 97.1%
 2589655040/2941128704 (88.0%) @12.3x, remaining 0:29 RBU 99.9% UBU 97.1%
 2649620480/2941128704 (90.1%) @13.0x, remaining 0:24 RBU 100.0% UBU 97.1%
 2710110208/2941128704 (92.1%) @13.1x, remaining 0:18 RBU 100.0% UBU 97.1%
 2768240640/2941128704 (94.1%) @12.6x, remaining 0:14 RBU 100.0% UBU 97.1%
 2829713408/2941128704 (96.2%) @13.3x, remaining 0:09 RBU 100.0% UBU 97.1%
 2891677696/2941128704 (98.3%) @13.4x, remaining 0:03 RBU 100.0% UBU 97.1%

Second Machine

System Kubuntu 20.04.3
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K3b Version: 19.12.3
KDE Version: 5.67.0
Qt Version: 5.12.8
Kernel: 5.11.0-37-generic

Used versions
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growisofs: 7.1

growisofs
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Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/sr0 obs=32k seek=0'
/dev/sr0: engaging DVD-R DAO upon user request...
/dev/sr0: reserving 1436098 blocks
/dev/sr0: "Current Write Speed" is 16.4x1352KBps.
      98304/2941128704 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 2991:46 RBU 100.0% UBU 0.0%
      98304/2941128704 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 4487:39 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0%
      98304/2941128704 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 6482:10 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0%
      98304/2941128704 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 7978:03 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0%
      98304/2941128704 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 9473:56 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0%
      98304/2941128704 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 11468:27 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0%
    6422528/2941128704 ( 0.2%) @1.4x, remaining 198:00 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.5%
   25657344/2941128704 ( 0.9%) @4.2x, remaining 54:55 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.5%
   44892160/2941128704 ( 1.5%) @4.2x, remaining 35:29 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.5%
   64126976/2941128704 ( 2.2%) @4.2x, remaining 26:55 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.5%
[== ==]
2849112064/2941128704 (96.9%) @4.2x, remaining 0:17 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.5%
 2868346880/2941128704 (97.5%) @4.2x, remaining 0:13 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.0%
 2887581696/2941128704 (98.2%) @4.2x, remaining 0:10 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.5%
 2906816512/2941128704 (98.8%) @4.2x, remaining 0:06 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.5%
:-[ WRITE@LBA=15e9c0h failed with SK=5h/ASC=21h/ACQ=04h]: Invalid argument
:-( write failed: Invalid argument
/dev/sr0: flushing cache

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[Thomas Schmitt (scdbackup)]

This is probably
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794868
lingering around since 2015.

The fix would be simple, but somebody would have to convince Debian
to add the patch in above bug report to its growisofs package.

Alternatively try to burn the ISO by help of Xfburn which will
not employ growisofs but rather libburn.

The problem is not supposed to happen with growisofs for DVD+R or DVD+RW
media, or for formatted DVD-RW.

[Thomas Schmitt (scdbackup)]

Another way to circumvent the DAO end bug of growisofs is to pad up the ISO image
to an integer multiple of 32 KiB.

[Geoff Fitton (ngc5195)]

Thank you, Thomas. Most interesting & helpful. As you suggested, I used Xfburn & that has worked OK. Thanks again!

[Chris Ward (tjcw)]

I have the same problem today with Ubuntu "22.04.1 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)" . Workaround is to use nautilus to burn the iso to DVD.